Name: Gut Symmetries
ISBN: 9780517286937

Jeanette Winterson

ailed in the Washington Post as "one of our most important writers in English, " Jeanette Winterson has firmly established her reputation as an extraordinarily daring and original novelist. In Gut Symmetries, lives and universes run parallel in a complex contemporary love story set in New York and Liverpool, and aboard the QE2.

Gut Symmetries

madina

WORKING-CLASS BOY: Drive disc of Capitalism. Girl or boy. An unexploded dream.

MATTER: A witticism. At sub-atomic level, that which has a tendency to exist.

Knowledge, not as accumulation but as charge and discharge. A release of energy from one site to another. Instead of a hoard of certainties, bug-collected, to make me feel secure, I can give up taxonomy and invite myself to the dance: the patterns, rhythms, multiplicities, paradoxes, shifts, currents, cross-currents, irregularities, irrationalities, geniuses, joints, pivots, worked over time, and through time, to find the lines of thought that still transmit. 

The facts cut me off. The clean boxes of history, geography, science, art. What is the separateness of things when the current that flows each to each is live? It is the livingness I want.

i was the exact reader targeted with for this book. complicated emotions & relationships with the self, parents, lovers, time & memory; run-on sentence structures that bend & break grammar; the intersection of science & faith & its superposition & the true interconnectedness of these manmade dichotomies in disciplines; that heartwrenching, thankless love of the universe; grief (a new one for me, personally). 

i was the exact reader targeted with for this book. complicated emotions & relationships with the self, parents, lovers, time & memory; run-on sentence structures that bend & break grammar; the intersection of science & faith & its superposition & the true interconnectedness of these manmade dichotomies in disciplines; that heartwrenching, thankless love of the universe; grief (a new one for me, personally). 

What kills love? Only this: neglect.
I knew I was neglecting myself.

+ i love stella with all my heart

Nicholas Barnard

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Malgorzata Olszewska

Daniel Cleveland

Donald

Beginning an affair with an older scienist, a leader in their mutual field of theoretical physics, a young woman also forms an intense friendship with and abiding passion for his wife

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